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Discover Baking as Lifestyle Medicine, and how to bake Proven Bread, from the walled gardens of Dr Vanessa Kimbell's beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire, where we train healthcare professionals, teach bakers, and support individuals to bake personalised bread using nutrigenetics and gut health assessments.

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How to Score & Bake Sourdough

Learning Objective

Follow the videos and written instructions to learn how to score and bake your sourdough bread. You will discover different methods of scoring and how to work out the best way to bake bread in your oven to achieve the results you want.

Learning Outcome

You will now be more confident with scoring and baking your sourdough bread. You will have the tools to make decisions about the right scoring and baking techniques to use to get the results you want and feel comfortable practicing these every time you make sourdough.

The scoring and baking of your sourdough bread are key processes that take a lot of practice. In these two videos, Vanessa explains the techniques to you so that you can feel confident pacticing on your own to achieve the loaf of bread that you want to eat and serve. To continue reading, subscribe now for unlimited access. Subscribe

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All reasonable care is taken when advising about health aspects of bread, but the information that we share is not intended to take the place of treatment by a qualified medical practitioner. You must seek professional advice if you are in any doubt about any medical condition. Any application of the ideas and information contained on this website is at the reader's sole discretion and risk.

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